Your OPRA request was received by this office on 07/20/2021 and is
currently being processed.

Thank you,

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The Piscataway Police Department received your Open Public Records Act
(OPRA) request on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. As such, the seven (7) business
day deadline to respond to your request is Thursday, July 29, 2021. This
response to your request is being provided to you on the first business
day after the custodian’s receipt of said request.

Your request sought access to the following:

All police reports and CAD logs for the below listed calls as identified
by their CAD numbers:

- 21010827
- 21010830

1.     With response to your request for CAD reports are provided with
redactions which were made only to delete the phone numbers of the
citizen’s who called for service. Pursuant  to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1

      “a public agency has a responsibility and an obligation to safeguard
from public access a citizen's personal information with which it has been
entrusted when disclosure thereof would violate the citizen's reasonable
expectation of privacy.” 

Burnett v. County of Bergen, 198 N.J. 408 (2009). Without ambiguity, the
court held that the privacy provision “is neither a preface nor a
preamble.”  Rather, “the very language expressed in the privacy clause
reveals its substantive nature; it does not offer reasons why OPRA was
adopted, as preambles typically do; instead, it focuses on the law’s
implementation.”  “Specifically, it imposes an obligation on public
agencies to protect against disclosure of personal information which would
run contrary to reasonable privacy interests.”

2.      With response to your request for police reports for the two
incidents numbers, these do not exist.

If your request for access to a government record has been denied or
unfilled within the seven (7)

business days required by law, you have the right to challenge the
decision by the Piscataway Police Department to deny access. At your
option, you may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New
Jersey or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (“GRC”) by
completing the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC by
toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trento, NJ
08625, by e-mail at

[email address], or their web site at www.state.nj.us/grc. The Council
can answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding
complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Court Clerk
in your County.

Monica Orlando

Deputy Township Clerk
Clerks Dept
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Phone: (732) 562-2310

[email address]

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